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Official Languages committee This document shows that $1.6 million goes to court cases.
June 5th, 2007Committee meeting
Jean-Rodrigue Paré
Official Languages committee It's testimony from the officials affidavits.
May 1st, 2007Committee meeting
Jean-Rodrigue Paré
Official Languages committee Fine. In accordance with Standing Order 108(1), that the Standing Committee on Official Languages invite, as soon as possible, the Commissioner of Official Languages, Mr. Graham Fraser, followed by the Hon. Josée Verner, Minister responsible for the La Francophonie and Official
May 1st, 2007Committee meeting
Jean-Rodrigue Paré
Official Languages committee No, it is not approved by the minister; it is approved by the Treasury Board.
May 1st, 2007Committee meeting
Jean-Rodrigue Paré
Official Languages committee Monies attributed come from Privy Council budgets in order to avoid ministerial interference.
May 1st, 2007Committee meeting
Jean-Rodrigue Paré
Official Languages committee Fundamentally, there are two elements concerning plans and priorities. Minister Verner can appear and answer our questions regarding the plans and priorities of Heritage Canada with respect to official languages. With this blue book we can analyze the Report on Plans and Prioriti
May 1st, 2007Committee meeting
Jean-Rodrigue Paré
Official Languages committee Not on the subject of the Commissioner's Office.
May 1st, 2007Committee meeting
Jean-Rodrigue Paré
Official Languages committee Then there's been a misunderstanding.
May 1st, 2007Committee meeting
Jean-Rodrigue Paré
Official Languages committee This is normally true, when it concerns the department. However, in this case, it concerns the Commissioner's Office. The Commissioner is responsible for tabling his own budgetary needs for the upcoming year. In this case, it is the Commissioner himself who must justify these dem
May 1st, 2007Committee meeting
Jean-Rodrigue Paré
Official Languages committee It's very simple. In offering its services, the federal government relies on the first official language spoken criterion—
February 1st, 2007Committee meeting
Jean-Rodrigue Paré
Official Languages committee —which isn't the same thing as mother tongue.
February 1st, 2007Committee meeting
Jean-Rodrigue Paré
Official Languages committee No, it's not knowledge, it's the first official language spoken. That may be the mother tongue, but not necessarily. That means, for example, that, in Quebec, given the large percentage of immigrants—
February 1st, 2007Committee meeting
Jean-Rodrigue Paré
Official Languages committee ... for whom English is the first language spoken, as a result of which the statistics on mother tongue don't accurately reflect the situation of Anglophones in Quebec. So the federal government relies on the first official language spoken criterion.
February 1st, 2007Committee meeting
Jean-Rodrigue Paré
Official Languages committee That corresponds to approximately 920,000 persons in Quebec, according to the 2001 census...
February 1st, 2007Committee meeting
Jean-Rodrigue Paré
Official Languages committee ...and to approximately the same percentage of Francophones outside Quebec, also according to the 2001 census.
February 1st, 2007Committee meeting
Jean-Rodrigue Paré